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Robert Redford by Orlando Globey via The Selvedge Yard
It's well documented that Paul Newman & Steve McQueen were racers to their bones. These guys knew how to operate machines of four wheels and two as well as they knew "

The plot is all over the place, the characters are to a man down-at-heel losers, but motorcycles and the love of dust and racing runs through it like lube – making the less-than-epic film making seem more-than-bearable.

Apparently Redford thought it was the best script he’d ever read – but it bombed nonetheless when it hit the screens in 1970. Execution was, perhaps, hampered by the strange summer in which it was produced – yes folks, Southern California in the summer of 1969 was indeed a twisted season.

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